The Makkovik Fish Plant is in operation since last week and the Nain Fish plant will be in Operation next week.
Keith Watts is the General Manager.
He says people are cleaning up the Makkovik fish plant as we speak.
Watts says the crab season will open on July 4 at 6am and the fishermen will set their pots out.
It will be at least 4-5 days before the fishermen make their first haul.
He adds there is a Residential Trailer for bids as is where is and the closing date is July 3rd.
The Makkovik fish plant is looking for people to work at the fish plant, call 923-2103 or 896-3992
The Nain fish plant will be in operation next week.
Watts says after the fish plant clean up, fishermen will then start the char fishery.

VALE is travelling to Nain, Hopedale, and Rigolet to speak with individuals about employment and training.

Trent Pottle is an Inuit Employment Coordinator.

He has already been to Hopedale from Wednesday, June 26, 2019 and Thursday, June 27, 2019. He held the Employment Opportunities in the courtroom at the NG Assembly Building.

He will be travelling to Nain today Friday, June 28, 2019 to Sunday, June 30, 2019, and will be held at the LATP Office.

He adds that he will be travelling to Nain once the weather clears.

Pottle will also be travelling to Rigolet on Tuesday, July 2, 2019 all day and it will be held at the NG Building. Weather permitting.

He says he wants’ to speak to community members regarding current employment opportunities and training opportunities in Voiseys Bay. He will also be available to update and work on resumes.

For more information about this please email Trent Pottle at Trent.Pottle@vale.com

Canada Day is coming up this Sunday July 1, 2019.

In Nain, the events start tomorrow, Saturday, June 29, 2019.

To start off Canada Day there will be a Coed Volleyball Tournament at 2pm at the Jeremias Sillett Community Centre.

On Sunday,June 30, from 1 pm to 8 pm a Texas Hold ‘Em will take place also at the JSCC and registration starts at 12:30pm.

At 6pm there will be a Canada Day softball Tournament at the sports field.

On July 1, Canada Day, to start off the day there will be a community breakfast at 8 am to 9:30 am at the JSCC.

Canada Day Photo Contest will go on and your photo’s can be emailed to recreationnain@nf.aibn.com, photos must be sent no later than 4 pm July 4.

A Fishing Contest starts at 10:30 am until 3 pm.

At 11am there will be a card board boat race and at 1 there will be the community parade starting at the airstrip.

1:30 there will be Canada Day cake decorating contest, games of chance for all, peddle boat rentals and family activities.

A free community BBQ will be at 4pm and from 7-9:30pm there will be community Dance and at the end of the night there will be fireworks.

To end of the celebrations off there will be a Giant Radio Bingo.
In Postville they start the day with a parade at the Kaipokok community centre at 2pm followed by games at the ball field.

There will be a bbq at the ball field and to end off the events there will be fireworks.

In Rigolet, they start their events with raising a flag and cake cutting at the net loft at 1pm.

There will be a parade to the rink then at the rink there will be relay races, face painting, photo booth and more.

At 2:30pm there will be a soccer game followed by a free community bbq and then to end off the events there will be darts, table tennis and 120 cardgame.

In Makkovik they start with a parade and head to Indian head to raise the Canadian flag.

Everyone then heads to the arena to play games for the whole family.

To end off their celebrations there will be fireworks at the 10:30pm.

Lela Evans is the newly elected MHA for Torngat Mountains District since May 17, 2019.

Evans updated her constituents yesterday Thursday, June 27, 2019.

The information that she was given for travel on the boat plane is as follows:

“Anyone who has a reservation and is willing to travel without their vehicle can call the reservations at LMI and they will look after them. They will pay the same amount as they would have paid on the ferry. This is what was told to me, word for word.

The contact number for passengers to call is 1 855 896 2262. So you can make your travel reservations as if the boat is traveling on its original schedule. If the boat isn’t traveling you will be accommodated by traveling on the boat plane.

Evans will try to help people who run into problems with this service.

For freight and vehicles, the Astron will be heading North on Tuesday.

Unfortunately the Astron will only provide this service until the new boat gets on schedule.”

Copied from her personal facebook timeline.

Lela Evans is the newly elected MHA for Torngat Mountains District since May 17, 2019.

We spoke with her to find out what issues that she’s been dealing with since being sworn in.

She says that she will be serving her district as MHA for four years.

She also said that there are a lot of questions being asked about the new vessel, Kamutik.

Click to hear more of what Evans has to say about what issues she’s dealing with.

Applications are now available for Community Enhancement Employment Program.

The Provincial Government is now accepting applications from not-for-profit organizations and local governments that wish to sponsor projects funded by the Community Enhancement Employment Program.

The Community Enhancement Employment Program provides funding to eligible sponsors, including towns, Inuit Community Governments, regional municipalities, local service districts, community and economic development organizations, and other non-profit organizations.

Individuals can be employed for up to 400 hours in order to become eligible for employment insurance benefits.

Applications for the 2019-2020 Community Enhancement Employment Program are available on the Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment website at: www.mae.gov.nl.ca/emp_support/ceep.html; by emailingemploymentsupport@gov.nl.ca; or by calling 1-866-508-5500.

The deadline for receipt of applications is July 26, 2019.

Tradition & Transition researcher and MUN Archaeologist Maria Lear is looking to hire assistants for the Nain Moravian Cemetery Project.

The project is a GPR survey which is a non-invasive geophysical method that allows you to capture a visual of what is below the ground’s surface.

The goal is to record the grave markers and to help note the location of unmarked possible graves within the cemetery.

Inuit Pathways requires that you are Nunatsiavut Beneficiary, at least 15 years of age, were in school this year, are returning to school next year, and have a SIN.

If you’re interested, please contact Maria at mlear@mun.ca.

The TaKuaKautik food giveaway is today, Thursday, June 27th from 6-8pm at the Nigivik Centre.

The TaKuaKautik would also like to remind the community that they will be handing out food once a month only.

It will be on the one day a month that is designated and advertised.

If people miss this date, you will have to wait until the next month to pick up food.

Please make sure to put extra effort into making an order and picking up a bag on that one day of the giveaway.

The TaKuaKautik food bank is ran completely by volunteers and due to the amount of work put into the food bank, this is what we are able to provide for the community until further notice.

Also please note that the Nigivik is not a part of the TaKuaKautik food bank. It is just space we use once a month for the give always.

The Nigivik Staff are not food bank staff.

If you have already filled out a registration form, you do not need to fill another.

You just need to leave your name and the number of people in your household.

The Nigivik Centre would also like for the bags to be returned before the next giveaway.

If you have any questions, please call toll free 1-709-700-4739 to place your order before 12pm on Wednesday.

Nain received its first visit of the summer from a marine vessel on Tuesday.

The Woodward Group of Companies’ oil tanker arrived in Nain Tuesday morning.

The Woodward’s tanker finally arrived in Nain Tuesday, June 25, 2019.

Peter Lidd is the Gas Attendant for the Woodward’s Gas Station.

He says that the gas will not unfreeze until next week sometime.

They we’re open for a couple hours while the tanker was here because they didn’t want traffic around as they were filling up the hydro drums.

The Gas Station is now open to regular hours.

The Okalakatiget radio will have more information once it becomes available.

Jerry Tuglavina of Nain was born in Hebron and had lived in Makkovik before moving to Nain.
Tuglavina had played various instruments throughout his life and continues to play when he can.
Instruments that he plays are: the accordion, banjo, guitar, and the violin and even wrote a few songs.
He has taught his children and grandson to play the guitar.
Click to hear Tuglavina speak on more about his past experiences.